Business Quotes

• "Every man has business and desire, such as it is."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king's."
  By: John Faucit Saville
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• "When there is blood on the street, I am buying."
  By: Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
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• "We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal."
  By: Theodore Roosevelt, written when Taft's administration sued to dissolve the Steel Trust
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• "No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
  By: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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• "I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" principles--qualities like love and care and intuition."
  By: Anita Roddick, Body and Soul
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• "The customer is never wrong."
  By: Cesar Ritz
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• "The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrow'd name."
  By: Matthew Prior, Ode--The Merchant, to Secure his Treasure
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• "A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "For a dear bargain is always annoying, particularly on this account, that it is a reflection on the judgment of the buyer. [Lat., Nam mala emptio semper ingrata est, eo naxime, quod exprobrare stultitiam domino idetur.]"
  By: Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus), Epistles (I, 24)
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• "There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Poenulus (I, 2, 74)
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• "Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them. [Lat., Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare, Navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato. Nam nullae magis res duae plus negotii Habent, forte si occeperis exornare. Neque unquam satis hae duae res ornantur, Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Poenulus (I, 2, 1)
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• "The master looks sharpest to his own business."
  By: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
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• "It is very, sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician--I should like to be also something of a man."
  By: Theodore Parker
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• "Curse on the man who business first designed, And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!"
  By: John Oldham, Complaining of Absence (111)
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• "Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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